Most of you know that my all time favourite flavour is chocolate! What’s not to love? Plus chocolate is made from a cocoa bean and a bean is a vegetable which makes it good for you!! 😉
One the other hand, my second favourite flavour would be cinnamon! Cinnamon has some wonderful health benefits such as lowering LDL cholesterol (which is your bad cholesterol), may help in lowering blood sugar, as well as many other benefits.
Other than the health benefits of cinnamon, it just tastes great!! Add cloves, ginger and nutmeg and you have a mouthful of yummy goodness!
This cake is my first that has worked out beautifully without eggs, which is fantastic for those who need to lower their consumption or not be able to have eggs at all. If you are fine with eggs then you can use them instead.
Either way, be ready for a delicious mixture of cinnamon, spice and apples!
Apple Spice Cake (Gluten Free/ Dairy Free/ Refined Sugar Free/ Egg Free/ Vegan)
For cake batter:
1/2 c. sorghum flour (or additional 1/2 c. gluten free flour)
3/4 tsp. xanthan gum
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. sea salt
2/3 c. palm sugar
1 tsp. ground cloves
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
2 gel eggs- 2 Tbsp. ground chia plus 6 Tbsp. water (or 2 eggs if tolerable)
1/3 c. coconut oil-melted ( or other mild oil)
1 1/4 c. milk alternative (I used coconut milk)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
For Apple Mixture:
4 c. peeled and sliced apples (I used Empire)
3 Tbsp. palm sugar
2 Tbsp gluten free flour mix
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
Topping:
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 Tbsp. palm sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease 9 inch spring form pan.
In a small bowl, mix together ground chia and water to make gel eggs, set aside.
In a medium bowl whisk together flour mix, sorghum, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, xanthan gum, sea salt, palm sugar, and spices. Set aside.
In a large bowl beat together gel eggs, oil, milk alternative, vanilla and lemon juice. Add in dry mixture. Beat on low for 30 seconds, then scrape sides of bowl and beat on medium for 2 minutes. Set aside.
In another large bowl, mix together sliced apples and second amount of palm sugar, flour mix, cinnamon and lemon juice.
Put half your batter into the bottom of the greased spring form pan and spread evenly. Top with apple mixture. Put remaining batter on top of apples and spread evenly.
Mix together remaining palm sugar and cinnamon for topping. Sprinkle topping over batter.
Bake cake for 55-65 minutes, until toothpick come out clean and center of cake has firmed up like the outside.
Let cool 30 minutes Then slice and enjoy! Serve warm or cool. Freezes well.
Cake is excellent on it’s own, but to dress it up a bit more top with Whipped Coconut Cream.
Other desserts you may enjoy:
Pumpkin Cake with Cashew Icing
Apple Pie with Shortbread Crust
Shared On: Real Food Recipe Round Up, Mix It Up Monday, Mostly Homemade Monday, In and Out of the Kitchen, Fat Tuesday, Waste Not Want Not, Allergy Free Wednesday, Gluten Free Wednesdays, Wellness Wednesday, Gluten Free Fridays, Real Food Fridays, Whole Food Fridays, Healthy Vegan Fridays
I’m new to gluten free baking. Can I use all brown rice flour or another flour in place of your gluten flour mix?
Also, my son is allergic to cashews, in recipes that call for cashews such as your cashew icing what can I use in place of cashews?
He is fine with walnuts and almonds.
With gluten free baking it needs to be a mixture of flours to work properly. There are commercial gluten free flour mixes that you can buy if you don’t want to mix up your own. Just check to see if it already has xanthan gum in it or not. You need xanthan gum to act as the glue to hold your baked goods together.
As for the icing, I have only made it with the cashews so I don’t know if it will work with other nuts. You could also try my Cinnamon Sweet Potato Frosting. http://www.sandisallergyfreerecipes.net/cinnamon-sweet-potato-frosting-dairy-free-refined-sugar-free/
Thanks for posting your recipe on #realfoodrecipes link up this week. Looking amazing and so yummy!
This cake looks delicious! I remember my German Grandmother making something like this and I loved it! Thanks for sharing at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party!
Yum! Great recipe and so allergy tolerate. Pinned. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays Blog Hop! Have a wonderful healthy day!
What a great treat! Thanks for linking up with HVF 🙂
YUM, I love spice cake! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
Its live now!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com
This sounds so super delicious =) Perfect fall dessert. I love the coconut cream to top it off too.
Thanks for sharing this at Healthy Vegan Fridays! I have pinned this to our Pinterest Board.
Thanks Kimmy!